A joint World Bank - DfID Supervision Mission October 15-23, 2008.

A joint World Bank - DfID supervision mission will be undertaken from October 15-23, 2008 to review progress of NEAS network for implementation of activities and to make an assessment of the capacity building activities planned for this year. Mission will also review the Government's medium term plan for continuing with assessment and NEAS beyond June 30, 2009.  Mission will particularly focus on discussing Government's strategy and vision for NEAS including the institutional aspects as well as the need for continued technical assistance.  Relevant Secretaries, Directors from the provinces and areas and representative from EAD are also invited to make the meetings meaningful.  Mission team will include Messrs/Mesdames Sofial Shakil (Task Team Leader/Senior Education Specialist), Syed Ameer Hussain Naqvi (Senior Education Consultant), Hasan Saqib (Sr. Financial Management Specialist), Anwar Ali Bhatti (Bank Disbursement Analyst), Huma Ali Waheed (Trust Funds Administrator), Hasan Masood Mirza (Consultant) (World Bank) and Umbreen Arif (Education Advisor (DfID).  For Mission's schedule, please click here.

National Assessment-2007 is schedule from April 23-24, 2007 in all provinces/areas of Pakistan and May 02-03, 2007 in Sindh

National Assessment-2007 is schedule from April 23-24, 2007 in all provinces/areas of Pakistan and May 02-03, 2007 (119 districts of Pakistan) on Random Stratified Sampling technique (Decision made in NPCC meeting) for the subjects of Language (Urdu) and Mathematics.  Background questionnaire for students, teachers and head teachers are also included in this assessment schedule. 

For preparation of National Assessment, Lead Test Administrator's training will be held from 6-14 April, 2007 in NEAS, Ministry of Education, Islamabad.  Lead Test Administrators will be responsible to conduct trainings in their provinces/areas from 16-21, April, 2007. 

Monitoring of whole activity will also be performed.  National/Provincial monitoring teams has been constituted for said purpose. 

This activity will be performed on Standardized Testing Format, designed by NEAS and its team. Test starting time has been decided throughout Pakistan is 9:30am.

Test Administration Training in Provinces/ Areas will be held from 16-21 April, 2007

LTAs trained at NEAS will go to conduct provincial/Area Test Administration.  These test Administration trainings will be held in different locations within a province/area. 

During this training Test Administrators will get all assessment materials to conduct testing on 23-24 April, 2007.

This activity will be monitor by NEAS, PEACEs, AEACEs so NEAS can ensure quality assurance factor.  MTR report's suggestions specially incorporated this year to run this activity smoothly and effectively. 

Two days Training on Test Administration of Lead Master Trainers will be held in NEAS, Islamabad from 06-14 March, 2007 for all provinces/areas.

Two days training on Test Administration for Lead Master Trainers held in NEAS, Islamabad from 06-14 April, 2007.  Provinces/Area's nominated LTAs will attend this training to train other provincial/area Test Administrators.  Schedule of LTA training is as under:

FANA+NWFP                          06-07 April, 2007

Sindh+AJK                               09-10 April, 2007

FATA+Balochistan                    11-12 April, 2007

Punjab+ICT                              13-14 April, 2007

Coding and Scoring National Achievement Testing 2006 started in all provinces and areas of Pakistan from May 08, 2006.

National Education Assessment System (NEAS), Ministry of Education, Pakistan in collaboration with all provincial/area assessment centers and two partnering institutions successfully conducted National Achievement Testing 2006 in the subjects of Languages (Urdu, Sindhi, and Pushto), Mathematics, Science and Social Studies for Grade-4 and National Pilot Testing for Grade-8 in the subjects of Languages (Urdu and Sindhi) and Mathematics. 

For the next phase, NEAS Ministry of Education has organized two days training workshop in each subject to trained 2 experts from each provincial/area assessment centers and two partnering institutions for data coding and scoring.  Data Coding and Scoring which is started in all provincial/area assessment centers including Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) from May 08, 2006.  Ms. Lucy Jones, Consultant NEAS and Data Scoring and Coding expert of NEAS are monitoring the said activity in all provinces/areas to ensure the quality assurance and provide remediate support to provincial/area assessment centers.